The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
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The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
Psychologists were being asked to dissect the nature of “the creative” not purely as scientists, “but as adjutants to the moralist.”
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The United States already spends more money per student than any other Western society. Would it be wise to add more money? The same consideration applies to testing: we are already testing very frequently, and ... See more
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
behavioral differences between individual people—our distinctive intellectual abilities and personality traits—might also be inherited.
Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
Forer rivelò agli studenti che era stato consegnato a tutti lo stesso documento, compilato prima ancora che il questionario fosse somministrato. Il testo era piú meno cosí: Hai bisogno dell’apprezzamento altrui e hai una certa tendenza all’autocritica, a volte distruttiva. Hai debolezze caratteriali, ma in genere sei in grado di gestirle. Hai molte
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